Friday night – Linda , David and Willow

Diane,. Oaklee and I took a quick hke up bamforth this am before work

Aroudn 3 om, Linda. David and Willow arrived from Endicott.. bearing Romas pizza, and all sorts of other yummy treats. .

Its always so great to see them . 

Dave braught me this incedible electronic experimenter magazien from 2023 ! .. more than 100 years old !

lind braught dian a matching outfit that makes them both look like twin s

We had a nice afternoon and evening. we ended up playing Telestrations. a game wehere you are assigned a ord, you have to draw it  and had it to the next person.. tha person guesses what your picture is and writes down what she’he thinkis it is and apsses that on.. the net person draws what the pervious person had written..and so forth until the draing comes bac tot he owner.. its soooo fun and funny.. .. 
I think this is. a picture that soemone .. diane ? drew for the word shaving cream.. and that s me thats supposed ot be shaving. 

Glad our friends are here.. 
nite all. nite sam
-me

Thursday night – Hack Club and my buddy Dave

After work today I dropped by Hackclubs’ new location in downtown Burlington. its an amazingly nice space. .. it used to be an ice house a hundered years ago.. now its the center of a huge and growing of high school hackers all over the world. I went there  to check in about  a trip im making with them to Open Sauce.. the ultimate maker meet up  next month. Great seeing all my friends there… Several of them are off to Schenzen this week for a hackathon before meeting up in San Mateo for open saice.  

TOnight I was reading IEEE Circuits and Systems magazine and was very happy to see my good friend Dave Allstot had  won this years Kirchhoff award.. what an honor..  Dave had several interviews in the magazine. it was great hearing him reflect on his career. he’s alway been an inspiration to me  !

Congrats Dave.. so well deserved !

nite all. nite sam
-me

Wednesday night – Happy birthday Max !

Today our wonderful son Maxwell turns 38 years old.. he’s such awesome  person.. super smart.. very loving and fun. .. and .. about to become a dad !!!!!  He’s the guy who made me a dad 38 years ago.. and i’m so glad he did !


Diane and I had fun making a birthday video… We went to several different places and sang all 4 stanzas  of happy birthday at each then stiched 5 together to make this (sorry bout our singing 🙂 


I had so much material with all those additional stanzas and places, I couldn’t just leave them on the cutting room floor… so my biddy claude and I maade a mixmax mix .. 

diane climbed camels hump with rachel ad oaklee and shee wore her wild things max shirt n honor of maxs birthday !

the rest of the day was fun at work.. after work, alex. jack and john loud and chris feloney came by for a tour of beta.. always good fun !

Happy brithday again Maxwell. We love you so much !

see you soon in Santa Fe !!!

nite all, nite sam
-me